Bridging requirements, planning, and evaluation: A review of social robot navigation

J Karwowski, W Szynkiewicz… - Sensors, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Navigation lies at the core of social robotics, enabling robots to navigate and interact
seamlessly in human environments. The primary focus of human-aware robot navigation is …

Plansys2: A planning system framework for ros2

F Martín, JG Clavero, V Matellán… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous robots need to plan the tasks they carry out to fulfill their missions. The
missions' increasing complexity does not let human designers anticipate all the possible …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a cyber-physical system for ambient assisted living: A use-case analysis for social robot navigation in caregiving centers

LV Calderita, A Vega, S Barroso-Ramírez, P Bustos… - Sensors, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The advances of the Internet of Things, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, to give just a few
examples, allow us to imagine promising results in the development of smart buildings in the …

Social elastic band with prediction and anticipation: Enhancing real-time path trajectory optimization for socially aware robot navigation

G Pérez, N Zapata-Cornejo, P Bustos… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Springer
As social robots are projected to become an integral part of human life in the coming
decades, their ability to adapt movement and trajectory when in proximity to people is …

Evolution of socially-aware robot navigation

S Guillén-Ruiz, JP Bandera, A Hidalgo-Paniagua… - Electronics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
In recent years, commercial and research interest in service robots working in everyday
environments has grown. These devices are expected to move autonomously in crowded …

The town crier: a use-case design and implementation for a socially assistive robot in retirement homes

A Iglesias, R Viciana, JM Pérez-Lorenzo, KLH Ting… - Robotics, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The use of new assistive technologies in general, and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) in
particular, is becoming increasingly common for supporting people's health and well-being …

An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home

A Jerez, A Iglesias, JM Pérez-Lorenzo, A Tudela… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Springer
Socially assistive robots are receiving a growing interest in the health and social care
sectors. They are considered a promising technology to add value to the work of caregivers …

Integration of large language models within cognitive architectures for autonomous robots

MÁ González-Santamarta, FJ Rodríguez-Lera… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Symbolic reasoning systems have been used in cognitive architectures to provide inference
and planning capabilities. However, defining domains and problems has proven difficult and …

Membrane computing models and robot controller design, current results and challenges

C Buiu, AG Florea - Journal of Membrane Computing, 2019‏ - Springer
Designing membrane controllers for single-and multi-robot systems is an application area
initiated in 2011 at the Laboratory of Natural Computing and Robotics (natuRO) of the …

Causal-Based Approaches to Explain and Learn from Self-Extension—A Review

R Marfil, P Bustos, A Bandera - Electronics, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The last decades have seen a revolution in autonomous robotics. Deep learning
approaches and their hardware implementations have made it possible to endow robots …